Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Overview

This role is responsible for execution of the organization’s SAP Financials (SAP FICO) solution and services, including projects, enhancements, and application support. Work is performed in collaboration with the business and internal IT partners and management.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders, and manage delivery.
• Develop systems requirements; design, configure, and prototype solutions.
• Partner with IT teams to realize changes; work with finance users to test, train, define support procedures, and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.
• Create business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts, and training documentation.
• Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) teams, SAP managed services providers, and related third-party application service providers.
• Ensure consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP financial and management accounting applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance, and reference architectures.
• Assist in evaluating functionality enhancements in SAP FICO upgrades and work with infrastructure and operations teams to manage upgrade rollouts.
• Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.
• Assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT management.
• Perform other duties deemed integral by management, including fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and applicable operating rules, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

• Undergraduate bachelor’s or post-graduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• CPA preferred.
• Salary range: $115,000 - $130,000.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience across SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation, and support processes, including:
  • 1+ years of experience in an IT management and leadership role.
  • 1+ full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO and related integrations and bolt-ons such as SAP BPC (or Hyperion), Blackline, Vertex, and other third-party supporting applications using ASAP, Agile, and other SDLC methodologies.
  • Experience leading SAP FICO processes and integrating with end-to-end process design.
  • Experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
  • Full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO experience in North America.
  • Experience integrating SAP FICO solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.

Compensation & Benefits

Full-time employees are offered benefits including:

• Comprehensive health and medical benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Professional growth and leadership training
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on work location.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic under state or federal law.

Additional Notes

The job description outlines the general nature and level of work expected and is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Equivalent combinations of education, experience, and skills may substitute for minimum requirements.